Peter Pan, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY, sentence 64

“And who are the two noble portly figures accompanying her, now grown to man’s estate?

Who acts: two noble portly figures · What happens: be, accompany, grow · To what, where: two noble portly figures, Wendy, estate

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two noble portly figures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 accompanying	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 figures	cc
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 figures	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 figures	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 figures	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 figures	nummod
7	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 figures	amod
8	portly	portly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 figures	amod
9	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 accompanying	nsubj
10	accompanying	accompany	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 accompanying	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grown	punct
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 grown	advmod
14	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 accompanying	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	18 estate	mark
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 estate	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 man	case
18	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grown	xcomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 accompanying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the two noble portly figures		tree rules
2	accompany in a quote	gerund	the two noble portly figures	Wendy		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	grow in a quote	participle		man's estate	now	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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